Bookmarks

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

• WordPress › Sentimeter « WordPress Plugins – Very interesting plugin: "allows users to express sentiments (a la getsatisfaction.com, e.g. happy, neutral, outraged etc.) through the WordPress commenting system"
• podPress – Podcasting plugin for WordPress
• ultimaCMS | Powerful CMS Theme for WordPress – Very good looking CMS theme for WordPress
• The Harborne Mile – Marc Reeves, until recently the editor of the Birmingham Post, now goes hyperlocal with a blog for his local community.
• Learning Organizations (Peter Senge) – Wikipedia – "a learning organization is a group of people working together to collectively enhance their capacities to create results they really care about"

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious.

Awesomeness off of the internet for December 31st to January 1st:

• Life in Transit: Happy New Year everyone – confused of calcutta – "Platforms are the way forward. Platforms can and will happen. Platforms are happening. We just have to make sure that the infrastructure for the platforms is done right."
• Vendors and Consultants Should Not Be Driving Government 2.0 – "Government 2.0 is about spending less rather than more, it is about leveraging existing resources (employees, public data, consumer tools) rather than increasing them, it is about starting small and scaling fast, it is about focusing on specific problem areas rather than developing horizontal strategies, it is about listening rather than talking."
• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0 – "If Web 2.0 is a grass roots, organic and personality-focused shift in technology and approaches – as it is so often touted – is it not it counter-intuitive to think about an ‘organisational approach’ or to consider trying to write a strategy for development in this area?"
• #Gov20 Resources for 2010 – Adriel Hampton's list of good Gov 2.0 stuff. He mentions me (admittedly towards the barrel-scraping end of the post), which is nice!
• Web 2.0 Suicide Machine – Meet your Real Neighbours again! – Sign out forever! – "This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego."

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious.

Awesomeness off of the internet for December 30th to December 31st:

• Communities and Collaboration » Discovering the value of Social Networks and Communities of Practice – "Surprisingly few organisations consider the value that is being created by having better informed and more knowledgeable staff, or the potential value of getting closer to customers and local communities."
• MailChimp WordPress Plugin | MailChimp.com – Useful! via @lesteph
• Legacies of social reporting: an IGF09 example : Tim’s Blog – Tim Davies should have more time off if it means he's able to produce the great posts published in the last week or so! This is an excellent musing on social reporting at events, on tech, language and permanence, amongst other things.
• James Governor’s Monkchips » My 2009 Team of the Year Award – "That’s the thing – so far at least Android isn’t a phone, its an ecosystem."
• Tories announce £1m competition for large-scale crowdsourcing platform – "Cripes. HM’s Loyal Opposition has announced – if elected – a £1m prize for an online platform for large-scale crowdsourcing."
• Edgy software (Robert Brook) – "Some organisations – I’d actually argue most – have at least the capability of running testbeds. Prototypes. Incubators. Arms-length units, like Osmosoft is to BT."

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious.

Awesomeness off of the internet for December 27th to December 29th:

• Boredometer now on Facebook @ Plings Blogs – "The Plings social network site application, Boredometer is now available for local authorities to offer to young people in Facebook, after a successful beta test on Bebo."
• Facebook Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable – "Facebook is the world's leading social network, with over 300 million users and more than 900 employees. But how do you get the most out of it? To answer this question and more, Mashable has created The Facebook Guide Book, a complete collection of resources to help you master Facebook."
• The year of the 4th Sector Pathfinders at Helpful Technology – Steph's thoughts ahead of 2010.
• What problems does Google Wave solve? – "Wave is not a geek/hacker tool, or a social media tool, it’s a corporate tool that solves work problems"
• Noughties led by a world of networks as web goes mainstream – "The noughties have been technologically inspiring and liberating: but the threats to a wired world have also become starkly clear over the past 10 years"

Awesomeness off of the internet for December 22nd to December 23rd:

• Small Business Blog – You’re the Boss Blog – NYTimes.com – Nice blog from the NY Times on 'the art of running a small business'
• Nixle – "Trusted neighborhood news & information sent to your mobile phone & email, directly from your local police department & community agencies."
• Essex gambles on outcomes – and a change in government – "If Essex's experiment is not to suffer the same fate as other bold, but ultimately frustrated, local authority strategic partnerships, it will need the full backing of central government to enable outcome-based commissioning and to bash heads on workforce cuts and shared services. No doubt this is what Essex's Conservative leadership is counting on."
• TechHub – "TechHub is a new and exciting project to create a physical space for tech startups in London reaching out to entrepreneurs across the UK, Europe and the USA."
• IBM takes on services in Essex as part of £5bn privatisation deal – "A Conservative council has signed a pioneering deal with IBM worth up to £5.4 billion to manage and provide public services in a new wave of privatisation supported by David Cameron."
• chief executive SHDC – A blogging local authority chief exec – Terry Huggins at South Holland District Council. He is also on Twitter @terryhuggins